Found a track where the Artist name is empty if get by API

Tinkering Roon API
1

Maybe a problem of the API?
I’ve found an album where the artist is displayed fine in Ronn app (macOS), but not if I get it via python API. In this case, the artist field is empty.

I’ve load the data via python roon library, with this call: roonapi.zones.values()

This is the Track:
Artist: Meese X Hell
Album: Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland

This is the data which is coming from API call:
‘line1’: ‘Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland’,
‘line2’: ‘’, ‘line3’: ‘Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland’
…

Maybe this post can help to find an issue, or maybe I’m wrong?

2

Mavbe an issue with Ggerman Umlaut “ä”?

3

Not in general.
This artist name is fine: Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel
But this is also with empty artist name: NÖLL, track: GRETTIR (DEMO)

4

This is the raw zone data coming from python api:

{
    "zone_id": "16012dba88c8251185467b25cdabf32f684a",
    "display_name": "MINI-I Pro",
    "outputs": [
        {
            "output_id": "17012dba88c8251185467b25cdabf32f684a",
            "zone_id": "16012dba88c8251185467b25cdabf32f684a",
            "can_group_with_output_ids": [
                "1701e3c41e45033ef3f8437fa45961bc0494",
                "1701f8c96b4bbd74476c0afcc163e2516185",
                "17012dba88c8251185467b25cdabf32f684a",
                "1701c159c2dc7a0401e4f39ba80e00d79975"
            ],
            "display_name": "MINI-I Pro",
            "volume": {
                "type": "number",
                "min": 0,
                "max": 100,
                "value": 100,
                "step": 1,
                "is_muted": False,
                "hard_limit_min": 0,
                "hard_limit_max": 100,
                "soft_limit": 100
            },
            "source_controls": [
                {
                    "control_key": "1",
                    "display_name": "MINI-i Pro Output",
                    "supports_standby": False,
                    "status": "indeterminate"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "state": "playing",
    "is_next_allowed": True,
    "is_previous_allowed": True,
    "is_pause_allowed": True,
    "is_play_allowed": False,
    "is_seek_allowed": True,
    "queue_items_remaining": 7,
    "queue_time_remaining": 1824,
    "settings": {
        "loop": "disabled",
        "shuffle": False,
        "auto_radio": True
    },
    "now_playing": {
        "seek_position": 128,
        "length": 289,
        "one_line": {
            "line1": "Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland - "
        },
        "two_line": {
            "line1": "Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland",
            "line2": ""
        },
        "three_line": {
            "line1": "Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland",
            "line2": "",
            "line3": "Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland"
        },
        "image_key": "58faebb9780b9e3d1d12d6ed82d8f8a5"
    },
    "seek_position": 133
}
5

You can see here, the line 2 is an empty string, but should be ‘Meese X Hell’

6

Seems this is something for the Roon support :cold_sweat: